Manowar revealed on stage at the Magic Circle Festival last week that next year they will be performing their new, currently untitled, album on stage. It is to be written with top-selling German author Wolfgang Holbein and will include a tie-in novel, movie and video game.

A video game sounds ineteresting, hopefully something where you just hack and slash thousands of enemies to death, and it's a good thing they're hiring a professional writer to do the story for them. Manowar's done some pretty epic stuff in the past, even if the recent album was a little off target.

I like the album/book concept, the movie isn't a bad idea either, but the whole video game thing seems like a bit much... but Manowar is not the band that should be doing this... yet it doesn't surprise me at all that they are.